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As explained by Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > CPU 0 is running the context, task->mm == task->active_mm == your > context. The CPU is in userspace happily churning things. > > CPU 1 used to run it, not anymore, it's now running fancyfsd which > is a kernel thread, but current->active_mm still points to that > same context. > > Because there's only one "real" user, mm_users is 1 (but mm_count is > elevated, it's just that the presence on CPU 1 as active_mm has no > effect on mm_count(). > > At this point, fancyfsd decides to invalidate a mapping currently mapped > by that context, for example because a networked file has changed > remotely or something like that, using unmap_mapping_ranges(). > > So CPU 1 goes into the zapping code, which eventually ends up calling > flush_tlb_pending(). Your test will succeed, as current->active_mm is > indeed the target mm for the flush, and mm_users is indeed 1. So you > will -not- send an IPI to the other CPU, and CPU 0 will continue happily > accessing the pages that should have been unmapped. To fix this problem, check ->mm instead of ->active_mm, and this means: > So if you test current->mm, you effectively account for mm_users == 1, > so the only way the mm can be active on another processor is as a lazy > mm for a kernel thread. So your test should work properly as long > as you don't have a HW that will do speculative TLB reloads into the > TLB on that other CPU (and even if you do, you flush-on-switch-in should > get rid of any crap here). And therefore we should be OK. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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